Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:52:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Fortin <jonf@revelex.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Dan Harnett <danh@wzrd.com>, Nicholas Brawn <ncb@zip.com.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disallow remote login by regular user. Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0001151751410.2416-100000@revelex.com> In-Reply-To: <200001152233.RAA53004@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Hello, You could also set the users shell to /bin/false and add it in /etc/shells and use the -m option. jonf@revelex.com On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Dan Harnett wrote, > > Hello, > > > > You could also set this particular user's shell to /sbin/nologin and make the > > others use the -m option to su. > > But if you do this, remember, > > -m Leave the environment unmodified. The invoked shell is your lo- > gin shell, and no directory changes are made. As a security pre- > caution, if the target user's shell is a non-standard shell (as > defined by getusershell(3)) and the caller's real uid is non-ze- > ro, su will fail. > > You have to add '/sbin/nologin' to /etc/shells. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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